RxDoctor Payments Data

Bashir Ahmed, MD

Internal Medicine · Jacksonville, FLNPI 1861466641

Payments from drug & device makers

$331in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 18 payments — averaging $18.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$69
  • Gilead$43
  • Biogen$42
  • AbbVie$42
  • AstraZeneca$28
  • Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$22
  • plus $84 from 5 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$331100%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

General payments by program year

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20
21
22

Who reported the general payments

Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.

How this compares

$331 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 8,530 internal medicine providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$933,210
Medicare patients
1,284
Services billed
11,247

What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.

Most prescribed under Part D

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
XareltoRivaroxaban87$56,016
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate130$49,487
LinzessLinaclotide34$49,427
EliquisApixaban151$45,301
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter27$41,365
Omeprazole-Sodium BicarbonateOmeprazole/Sodium Bicarbonate23$41,171
Diclofenac Sodium22$34,951
JardianceEmpagliflozin33$33,583
Diclofenac Potassium19$31,919
EdarbyclorAzilsartan Med/Chlorthalidone37$26,383
DuleraMometasone/Formoterol20$17,095
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan15$15,613
Metformin Er GastricMetformin Hcl13$13,374
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol16$12,233
Dexlansoprazole DrDexlansoprazole23$5,830

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$13$56,01687 claims
AbbVieLinzess$42$49,42734 claims
PfizerEliquis$21$45,301151 claims
NovartisEntresto$69$15,61315 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 45th percentile of 8,530 internal medicine providers in Florida.

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